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Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$517k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.4MAnimals$880kHealth$386kHuman Services$211kArts & Culture$146kScience & Tech$121kYouth Development$108kPhilanthropy$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $750k
  • $250k+1 grant · $517k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC CHARLOTTE$516,500
SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL$165,000
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
DAVIE COUNTY SCHOOLS$103,500
BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS$81,500
CHRIST SCHOOL$75,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$75,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT$50,000
WINGATE UNIVERSITY$45,150
SMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY$34,000
DAVIE COUNTY RECREATION AND PARKS$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PLATEAU$20,000
HILL CENTER$15,000
SOAR ACADEMY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF MOORE COUNTY: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF MOORE COUNTY: $4k → 10%LEARNING TOGETHER INC: $9k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF MOORE COUNTY: $3k → 10%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $6k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF MOORE COUNTY: $3k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF MOORE COUNTY: $3k → 10%NORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 16%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 16%GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 11%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 11%DAVIE FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
DE
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 53 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
40

Total granted

$6.9M
$776k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+79%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $880k · revenue +53%
  • BS
    Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County
    5× · 2020–2024 · $542k · revenue +162%
  • SC
    Summit Charter School
    4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • NY
    NCSU - YADKIN PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $277k
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE VACCINE PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • NE
    NC EDUICATION CORPS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
2
Carolina International Prep School

Carolina prep is a school for preschool through primary formed to build a diverse, positive, stimulating learning environment which values excellence in academics, leadership, and service.

Education
3
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
4
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
5
River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education
6
Wake County Smart Start Inc

Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.

Education
7
Kipp North Carolina

Support of member charter schools in north carolina

Education
8
North East Carolina Preparatory School Inc

North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.

Education
9
Community School of Davidson Inc

Community school of davidson believes that every student can and will succeed in ways that reflect his or her own aptitudes and interests. our mission is to use the principles of "the basis school" to provide an optimum environment for…

Education
10
Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…

Education
11
The North Carolina Leadership Charter Academy Inc

The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…

Education
12
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Helps Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Get in the Game. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVIE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $1,300,958 · OtherDAVIE COUNTY SCHOOLSUNC CHARLOTTE: $1,043,238 · OtherUNC CHARLOTTENCSU - YADKIN PARTNERSHIP: $276,684 · OtherNCSU - YADKIN PARTNERSHIPNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER: $275,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTERAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $159,996 · Other+64 more: $1,173,107 · Other+64 moreBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County: $542,000 · EducationBrookstone Schools of Mecklenbur…Summit Charter School: $465,000 · EducationSummit Charter SchoolCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $355,000 · EducationCHRIST SCHOOL INCBOOK HARVEST: $185,000 · EducationBOOK HARVESTWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $159,150 · EducationWINGATE UNIVERSITYBOOKMARKS INC: $110,000 · EducationTHE HILL CENTER INC: $90,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $86,450 · Education+13 more: $259,500 · Education+13 moreTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $880,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL M…NORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGENERATIONED: $25,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Moore County: $16,800 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $10,500 · Human ServicesLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $8,815 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $6,000 · Human ServicesLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $19,200 · Youth DevelopmentMY KIDS CLUB: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGET IN THE GAME: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES TOGETHER INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPOWER CROSS: $23,000 · ReligionWITH PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 · Religion
Other$4,403,983Education$2,252,100Animals$880,000Human Services$92,115Youth Development$52,200Philanthropy$50,000Religion$30,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $880,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County: $542,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSummit Charter School: $465,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $355,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $185,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $159,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC: $110,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE HILL CENTER INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $86,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC: $65,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE: $55,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY INC: $41,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGENERATIONED: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER CROSS: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc: $19,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTEACHING FELLOWS INSTITUTE INC: $17,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetFamily Promise of Moore County: $16,800 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUnion County Library Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMY KIDS CLUB: $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626): $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGET IN THE GAME: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING TOGETHER INC: $8,815 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWITH PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRIVERPARK AT COOLEEMEE FALLS INC: $7,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAllegro Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnion County Public Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES TOGETHER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMIC LEARNING CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINDUSTRIES OF THE BLIND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVIE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $2,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCASHIERS-GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
  • Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HELPS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
  • Who funds DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART START OF DAVIE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN MOORE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIONED ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds POWER CROSS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationReynolds American Fou…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…Dollar General Litera…Truist Foundation IncThe Cemala Foundation…The Lovett FoundationDavie Community Found…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC33.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The Lovett Foundation · Davie Community Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mebane Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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